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Show GENERAL PERSHING THE SUPREME POWER Major Frederick Palmer Gives American Forces in France Great Praise. NEW YORK, Jan. SO. Samuel Gomp-ers, Gomp-ers, the labor leader, and Major Fred-j Fred-j erick Palmer, former newspaper corre-I corre-I spondent, now attached to the intelli-i intelli-i gence section of General Pershing's staff, in addresses today before the executive council of the League for National Unity, voiced the unity of purpose of the American Amer-ican people and declared their army "to be worthy of all our traditions." "I think I may say with much assurance," assur-ance," said Mr. Gompers, turning to Major Palmer. "that you can convey back the message to the fighting men in France that we are with them K'O per cent. There is no mental reservation in the pledge of the American government with the support of the great mass of the American people, that every part of man power, of all our resources, will be laid at the feet and given into the hands of the men who are fighting in France, and who will fight in France. "When you have driven the invaders back to the confines of thefr own accursed, ac-cursed, unhappy, monarch-ridden country coun-try then, and not till then, shall we listen to their proposals of peace." Major Palmer told of the preparations the American army was making to "be ready in a big way, and thoroughly, for our great task." "For the first three months it seemed as if we were making little headway." he said, "and then gradually the picture began be-gan developing out of the plate, until in December the whole plan began to take form. Such progress was possible only under centralized military direction, for ; our army in France is not run -by com- mittees or boards or councils. John 'Pershing is supreme. In France he lias bultt for us a general staff which is now i so co-ordinated that It is capable of looking look-ing after the organization of a big army in action. Men of ability are finding thir way to the top." The American expeditionary force in France was described by Major Palmar as "the best disciplined, most self-respecting and orderly in conduct, the best trained and organized our country has ever had." . |